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Obama’s ISIS War Is Not Only Illegal, It Makes George W. Bush Look Like A Constitutional Scholar
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Rudderless and without a compass, the American ship of state continues to drift, guns blazing.
- Andrew J. Bacevich, the Boston University political science professor and former Army colonel who lost his son in the Iraq war in 2007, in a recent Reuters article.
I have spent the past several days outlining my deep concerns about the “ISIS crisis” and Obama’s willingness to employ extreme propaganda in order to once again embark on another poorly thought out military campaign here and here. What I have also come to realize is that his latest war plan is brazenly illegal and unconstitutional.
While critics have been questioning the legality of U.S. military campaigns consistently since the end of World War II, one trend has become increasingly clear. With each new President and each new war, we have witnessed those who hold the office act more and more like dictators, and less and less like constitutional executives.
One very important, and up until recently, overlooked point about Obama’s latest “war on ISIS” is that this is not at all just more of the same. This crosses yet another very important line of shadiness, and if we as as American public allow him to do so, we will suffer grave long-term consequences to our economic future as well as our liberties. This is very serious stuff.
No one has outlined this point better than Bruce Ackerman, a professor of law and political science at Yale, in yesterday’s New York Times op-ed: Obama’s Betrayal of the Constitution. He writes:
BERLIN — PRESIDENT OBAMA’s declaration of war against the terrorist group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria marks a decisive break in the American constitutional tradition. Nothing attempted by his predecessor, George W. Bush, remotely compares in imperial hubris.
Mr. Bush gained explicit congressional consent for his invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. In contrast, the Obama administration has not even published a legal opinion attempting to justify the president’s assertion of unilateral war-making authority. This is because no serious opinion can be written.
This became clear when White House officials briefed reporters before Mr. Obama’s speech to the nation on Wednesday evening. They said a war against ISIS was justified by Congress’s authorization of force against Al Qaeda after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that no new approval was needed.
But the 2001 authorization for the use of military force does not apply here. That resolution — scaled back from what Mr. Bush initially wanted — extended only to nations and organizations that “planned, authorized, committed or aided” the 9/11 attacks.
Not only was ISIS created long after 2001, but Al Qaeda publicly disavowed it earlier this year. It is Al Qaeda’s competitor, not its affiliate.
Mr. Obama may rightly be frustrated by gridlock in Washington, but his assault on the rule of law is a devastating setback for our constitutional order. His refusal even to ask the Justice Department to provide a formal legal pretext for the war on ISIS is astonishing.
Senators and representatives aren’t eager to step up to the plate in October when, however they decide, their votes will alienate some constituents in November’s midterm elections. They would prefer to let the president plunge ahead and blame him later if things go wrong. But this is precisely why the War Powers Resolution sets up its 60-day deadline: It rightly insists that unless Congress is willing to stand up and be counted, the war is not worth fighting in the name of the American people.
But for now the president seems grimly determined to practice what Mr. Bush’s lawyers only preached. He is acting on the proposition that the president, in his capacity as commander in chief, has unilateral authority to declare war.
In taking this step, Mr. Obama is not only betraying the electoral majorities who twice voted him into office on his promise to end Bush-era abuses of executive authority. He is also betraying the Constitution he swore to uphold.
Think about this for a second. Barack Obama is using the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), which allowed for military action against “nations and organizations that planned, authorized, committed or aided the 9/11 attacks.” ISIS wasn’t even a twinkle in Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s eye back in September 2001. Even more stunning, ISIS and al-Qaeda more closely resemble enemies than allies. Yet this doesn’t seem to affect Nobel Peace Prize winning Barry Obama’s war planning. You can’t get much more insane and Orwellian than that.
Who cares right? This won’t ever affect you. So what if some bombs fall on innocent Arab civilians? Wrong.
One of the most terrifying aspects of this whole war push if Obama is able to pull it off, is that the reasoning (or lack thereof) could ultimately be applied to the detention of U.S. citizens indefinitely without a trial.
Yes, what I am referring to is the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, which allows for the indefinite detention of American citizens without a trial. I covered this frequently several years ago when Chris Hedges and others were suing the Obama Administration regarding the constitutionality of this law. In fact, one of my most popular posts ever was, NDAA: The Most Important Lawsuit in American History that No One is Talking About.
One of the ways in which the U.S. government has defended the NDAA is by saying it can only be used against “a person who was a part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners.” Glenn Greenwald noted in Salon in his, Three Myths About the Detention Bill, that:
Section 1021 of the NDAA governs, as its title says, “Authority of the Armed Forces to Detain Covered Persons Pursuant to the AUMF.” The first provision — section (a) — explicitly “affirms that the authority of the President” under the AUMF ”includes the authority for the Armed Forces of the United States to detain covered persons.” The next section, (b), defines “covered persons” — i.e., those who can be detained by the U.S. military — as “a person who was a part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners.”
Notice that the above says “pursuant to the AUMF,” which is the exact law the Obama Administration is using to justify his latest war. If he is able to start a war with ISIS based on the AUMF, despite the fact that ISIS and al-Qaeda are not allies at all, he or a future President could similarly use the AUMF and the NDAA to imprison anyone, anywhere for an indefinite amount of time based on the same absurd non-claim.
Let this all sink in for a second. Do you still support these ISIS strikes?
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I will issue a Fatwa on you for telling the truth about us...... errr them......
Woodrow Wilson,The New Freedom (1913)
bagdadi is eliot sclomo simon or simon eliot whatever
he a yid just like you
read the talmud fool.
you should not kill a yid and that yid should not kill you.
nmewn go to syria tough guy seek out some real arabs and fight them.
what is the deal with you kleinfelt a bad money deal with a paki or an arab or was it a paki gang arse rape.
if that is the case i can understand your hatred.
i would say those rapists do not deserve to live.
anyone that would go near your fetid torah lovin arse must indeed be sick.
And of course, you've got proof to back all that up...that al-BagHeady is really eliot sclomo and not Sunni?
Yeah, I thought so.
actually Tony is a deep double agent named Schlomo.
Actually, "Tony"; is seriously mentally distrubed, and I wish he would go away.
T he CIA and the MIC make foreign policy; Obama reads teleprompters; get it straight. It's no burst of stupidity; it's life long.
Sinking approval ratings certainly make strange bedfellows. I thought you said Afghaaaneeestawn was "the good war" Barry.
Be careful out there, you fucking piker.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140912/syria-rebels-non-aggression-pact-near-damascus
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So, is this not true or are the insane ObamaBots about to reveal themselves?
How quickly the brain-dead Obama suckups forgot about that "good war" shit. "Teach peace". "Coexist." "Obama Biden 2008" "Obama Biden 2012". That's an assembly of bumper stickers I've seen more than once.
I have to laugh when I see a 'Coexist' Bumper sticker. (thousands of ZH liberals peeling their stickers.) The bumper sticker tells you that a bonafied IDIOT is driving the car in front of you. Quick! Get around and ahead of them.
Whenever I see those stickers, I have to speed up to see who's driving and I make sure that I sneer at them. They very rarely turn their heads to see who's driving along side them.
This one's more realistic...
Kinda akin to SAC's Peace through Strenght motto.
they're probably driving a volvo...
Prius
My Dad, when I was a kid, always said " Never drive behind a guy who leaves a hat on the back seat deck or who smokes a pipe."
I guess that was the early 60's version of the coexist bumper sticker.
Explain that please?? I was told the hat means ex cop, aka Popeye Doyle on duty hat...
Great find! Hell, it's no wonder Barry had no strategy.
"That resolution — scaled back from what Mr. Bush initially wanted — extended only to nations and organizations that “planned, authorized, committed or aided” the 9/11 attacks."
So why did America invade Iraq? There was absolutely NO EVIDENCE of “planned, authorized, committed or aided” the 9/11 attacks" by Iraq or Saddam.
Quit being logical. Think like world controlling sociopaths.
"In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all."
Strobe Talbot, President Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State, as quoted in Time, July 20th, 1992.
I surely remember that quote. Nice job in posting that.
"So why did America invade Iraq?"
There was no sane reason for the war in Iraq. Nor Vietnam, BTW.
So what are we the people going to do about it, or what exactly can we do about it?
Eat MOAR Cheetos, watch MOAR T.V., buy MOAR shit, and ignore MOAR facts until it all implodes. Then stand around discussing how nobody could have seen it coming......
Exactly who are "we the people"?
Figure that one out and then you can plan a response.
well, eating some red chilis would be as good a place as any to start...
We the people, grant Authorized Use of Military Force on Obowellma, CONgress, Banksters, all TBTF banks, all MIC's and anyone TBTJ... Especially Jon Corzine and Bart Chilton. All U Mother Fuckers!
Its theater. You have to suspend your disbelief to buy into it.
So its shit. I had to take a theater class for my "liberal arts" prerequisites. Back in the day my drama instructure was a hippy in L.A. He did, or more correctly was into doing, "Street Theater". On unwitting civilians; the pedestrian victims of his pranks.
When he was taking drama classes (to avoid the draft) he and his (draft dodging) friends would go out on the major pedestrian predatory venues - Rodeo Drive - & pretend to fight. They would act scenes of violence: the loser beaten till he cries and gurgles, or set on fire with lighter fluid. And be gone before the police response arrived.
This was good shit.
Maybe you have to have taken acid to appreciate it.
The Merry Pranksters touched forever. And, Lived!
If you did too, you are one of us.
I call upon you to raise the spirits of the nation, beginning with the next person you see.
Destiny or divinity
...Ohhhhhhhhmmmmmmmm...nice paisley horsey!
Just remember kids... toss a lit cigarette into every trashcan you see. Every day.
Theatre, baby.
lol
shrub will be upset at the inference that he could be smarter than someone else. he claimed he would never let any other politician out dumb him.
the Talmudic is always of the grave, all you have
to do is look it up.
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terrorism is a tactic practiced from the womb
to the child, on to the dinner table and to the
nation state. in good times it is called discipline
and justice, when the good times end it is reviled.
like today.
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terrorism:
the antithetical corollary, failing to sooth the savage
impulse to turn up the volume; it attempts to justify a grave
and repeating countenance and fate.
years ago, the mind of men, man and woman told stories
explaining it all, the tactic and the result/outcome.
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seems there is always a future price for a short cut.
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the point is there is always terrorism, the opportunity
arises when a party exploits the natural fact to pursue
power over disengaged or otherwise innocent people and parties.
that is nothing. better, in the creation of meaning
business and with the capacity to create public
images and control resulting in consumption or consumptive
integration, to claim regional or "universal" power by
destroying the poorly constructed idol you named the
"terrorist". now, that is a cheap trick, a talent of a
star ..... a god even, almost, close enough for a sound
bit in a news cycle. aka politics 101
Dems can't get enough of 0-bomb-a crank.
Too funny, they'll follow that schmuck into the gates of hell.
LOL
monad: Its theater. You have to suspend your disbelief to buy into it.
So its shit.
Theater? Yes, the punch like is people VOTED for this shit man. They consented to be led by this moron.
I'm laughing.
eddiebe: So what are we the people going to do about it, or what exactly can we do about it?
Check out.
Defund.
Non participate.
Building a train set with my two nephews.
I'm pretty much gonna sit home, work on my bike, drink beer, bonk the 'ole lady....help neighbors and be a non consumer.
They make money off your production. They skim.
Got it?
No production, no skim.
LOL.
But by all means, be an idiot and keep watching the stoopid box and make damned sure you buy the new ifagphone.
888, Doing nothing at least in this case is not doing something. Where did you get the bike or the beer? Do you brew it yourself? Do you grow the grain and hops? Do you make the bottles? What do you use to brew? Did you make your own kettle? Do you use electricity from the grid? How about that trainset? Do you own property? Have you paid your property tax? No? Your income tax? No? They'll send in the swats and take your house.
I don't know what fantasy land you live in, but enjoy while you can.
"Grow weed for fun and profit."
I saw the ad in the back of a dirty book.
Honest.
Words and more words as well as Bush bashing. I'm glad all you liberal assholes and Obama dick lickers are finally seeing how you've been duped by a Muslim loving white hating President. You deserve everything you have coming to you.
Looks like we have a room full of red/blue team retards tonight. Every president is/was simply a voice box with wires coming out of them. Nothing more.
"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."
Zbigniew Brezinski, Between Two Ages, America's Role in the Technotronic Era 1970
"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order [referring to the 1991 LA Riot]. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond [i.e., an "extraterrestrial" invasion], whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government."
Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991
"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries."
David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991.
Yes, we have a dictatorship and a police state, to boot. If this guy studied the US Constitution, it was clearly to learn just exactly how to subvert it.
But Barry is a constitutional scholar, and Nobel peace prize winner so he can't be doing anything wrong. What kind of community organizer would be if he were so calously throw American and muslim lives away so that he can look tough for the midterm elections. No I am sure that everything is just fine. Change you can relieve yourself on.
robnume:Yes, we have a dictatorship and a police state, to boot. If this guy studied the US Constitution, it was clearly to learn just exactly how to subvert it.
"IF"?
:)
Seen any college papers or transcripts?
I didn't think so.
Thesis?
(crickets)
And I'm sure Bush got into Yale and Harvard on his own merit. And also that cushy gig in the Texas guard.
But the real questions is, who gives a shit and why does it fucking matter now?
I doubt GW received special dispensation and entrance as a foreign student. We already know Bush's Yale college record, remember in 2004, it was a daily mass media imperative to show that Bush was a borderline, if not failing student as opposed to John F. Kerry, another 'briliant' creation of the Leftist media molls? Didn't turn out that way though did it? GW's grades were superior to Candleface. As to the cushy gig in the ANG, you think you could pass jet pilot training? A lot of math involved, beyond all the other intellectual and psychological hurdles. He may of had a leg up to receive consideration, but I doubt he received affirmative action grade norming as opposed to the "magic Negro."
Jesus Christ, who cares. He's a third generation rich kid fuck up oligarch cunt.
You cared enough to make the comments in the first place.
I really hate your comment, it's bullshit. My point is that your comment is dumb and a waste of time. "Democrats" made the same mistake as you, arguing nonsense about Bush's career or mindset. It didn't matter. AT ALL. But keep pushing that Obama is kenyan, or didn't write his thesis, or didn't earn his position, etc. It doesn't matter and does nothing. I take exception to your post, I cared enough about that, not about what horseshit Duc888 said about Obama (which was also a waste of time). Talk about what matters or shut the fuck up.
Again, you made the comments about Alumni legacy, and the ANG. It didn't matter to you, but you posted it anyway? Who should shut the Eff up? I didn't claim Obama was a Kenyan. His mother was an American (unless she renounced her citizenship...I don't know if she did), so he is a US citizen. However, his application for his scholarship is sealed, and I do believe there is a reasonable possibility that he applied as a foreign student, using his father's citizenship as a basis to apply. Further, I made no comments about Bush's career or mindset. I only responded narrowly to the comments that matter not a Effing bit, but which you posted. You should simply take your own advice and shut the fuck up.
I see, so only those things that you say matter are the things we should talk about. Sounds strangely like the mindset of a dictatorial prick. I have an idea, if the conversation or comment offends you then give it a down arrow and scroll past it. You have the freedom to do that you know.
Bullshit. What matters are things that have imact in the real world. Clearly railing against Obama about being Kenyan, or golfing a lot, or his thesis has made absolutely no dent in his standing. And my concept of what matters extends back to Bush, through Clinton, with his Lewinsky, shit, etc. My point is that politically it doesn't matter. Rail against the machine, the president makes no difference. What he does and who he is doesn't matter. All of these minor things just distract from the real issues. The only thing these conversations do is solidify the partisanship / two party system that's crippling the US, and that matters a lot.
i_call_you_my_base : But the real questions is, who gives a shit and why does it fucking matter now?
Same master different puppet(s).
Sorry...I gotta laugh again,
by all means keep voting.
Obama wants to start a legacy of war-capable dem presidents. The dems want to cut in on the repubs longstanding fundamental shtick. Not to mention rescue bozo's abysmal poll numbers.
The arming of syria by the u.s. who knew full well that weapons would find their way into the hands of isis qualifies as outright treason. Isis may be outright funded by the cia and mossad, which should justify an immediate revolution.
It doesnt seem logical that an extreme terrorist group would carry out those rage-inducing beheadings the way they have all widely disseminated and all. It doesnt seem plausible that the entire coalition sat back while they waltzed into iraq and took town after town unimpeded. All these very inflammatory public statements ISIS makes against us, Russia and everyone else makes this evil israeli/american agenda so obvious. Remember the dancing jews? Point is, if ISIS were serious, they would work on the down-low and plot in hopes that nobody sees anything coming.
This ISIS crap is a huge world show and a bogus charade. Our military complex is most assuredly in on it. Our current presidential administration, Israel and the accursed neocon agenda have WAY WAY WAY more to gain from all this ISIS bravado than anyone else in the world - FAR more than ISIS themselves do.
Spot on. You saved me a lot of typing.
Yes; it's a good post.
"Isis may be outright funded by the cia and mossad"
No. The CIA and Saudi Arabia. You'll see, if you piece together the events, that it makes much more sense than having a raving loony suicidal Israel turning the whole region into a powderkeg, with their tiny country standing right in the middle.
Having said that, I understand that trying to talk Americans out of their paranoid antisemitism is a lost cause.
So, is ZH or anyone else keeping track on the Call of Duty that the Con-greas critters are doing, in term of holding Holder's and Obama's feet to the fire?
And the LSM (Lame Stream Media), what about them doing their job)? Assuming they are doing anything other than "managing their careers" and fluffing their Zio owners.
Obumerangs foreign policy = add shit and stir
CIA-Obama is being used by Israel's control entity in the DC US, the CIA, to facilitate Israel's Lebensraum and pipeline. The rest of us, the American people are being taken for the ride and a ride.
Notice how Syria went, in one year, from Assad is bombing and gassing civilians and "we" need to get involved, to Syria is the home of the "Islamic State" boogeyman and "we" have to bomb.
I was born at night, but not last night.
An American, not US subject.
The American people really need to realize that a choice is coming whether they like it or not: They can wither away in poverty and misery with everyday a fight to just survive or fight to take back the county, the American country, from these treasonous criminals and murderers.
The choice is coming: Persecution or Revolution.
The Four Rs
Rejection: Quit paying, quit obeying, quit playing
Revolution: It is inevitable, so prepare, as they are.
Retribution: The guilty must answer for their crimes against the American people and the Constitution.
Restoration: Restore the American people, country and Constitutional republic.
Mental farting applied to writing. Good Job!
Why do you expect the welfare state to fight its own wars? " Never again! "
I Thought the purpose of the UN was to prevent a situation like this happening. If the US attacks Syria, a sovereign country, Without UN approval, then it is no different to the attack on Kuwait by Iraq, so the UN should act and apply unilateral sanctions against the US and expel them from the UN along with any other country that take part in this act of war, but because the US is the UN it won't happen, so let's just rip up the UN charter and have a free for all land grab.
Now you know why Obama said ISIL (ISIS) wasn't muslim...... because we are all ISIL.... non-muslims and therefore the enemy.
Inside of that context, using 9/11 as fake legal pretext to justify attacking ISIS continues to be quite consistent with the extremely insane and Orwellian thrust of American policies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC3tINgWfQE
The Geopolitics of World War IIIA little background:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/northwoods.html
Some are told to go pound sand, Obumner she be told to go golf, and stay there until his term is up. maybe this will sink in to the Amerkans the they need to get a grip on their Country and just hope the next president can be a leader this time!
The average American's best short-term hope is that Vlad wakes up on the wrong side of the bed one morning, and decides he really needs to take DC, NYC and London out of the equation, as it were.
High risk, but high reward, for most everybody.
"just hope the next president can be a leader this time!"
Good luck with that, I believe Hillary is lining up for the job and she will have to show that she has bigger balls than the boys.
"Obama’s ISIS War Is Not Only Illegal, It Makes George W. Bush Look Like A Constitutional Scholar"...Well I wouldn't go quite that far now... Just remember who gave us these wonderful rememberances of his legacy:
"You work three jobs? ... Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." --to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." --Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on --shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." --Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
"I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of Defense." --Washington, D.C. April 18, 2006
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." --Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000
I could provide you with more of his quotes but that would be considered a form of torture commensurate with water boarding!
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"evil sometimes seems good
to a man whose mind
a god leads to destruction."
Muslim Man Admits to Multiple Murders in WA, NJ in Taking ‘Vengeance’ on U.S. http://christiannews.net/wp-content/themes/linepress/styles/default/icon...) 0% 50% no-repeat;">August 22, 2014 | http://christiannews.net/wp-content/themes/linepress/styles/default/icon...) 0% 50% no-repeat;">Filed under: Highlights,Law & Government,Life & Society,Top Stories | http://christiannews.net/wp-content/themes/linepress/styles/default/icon...) 0% 50% no-repeat;">By:Heather ClarkWEST ORANGE, N.J. – A Muslim man has admitted to multiple murder charges committed in two states, of which he told investigators were committed as retribution against the United States for its military operations in the Middle East.
“My mission is vengeance for the lives, millions of lives [that] are lost every day,” Ali Muhamad Brown stated, according to reports. “Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan—all these places where innocent lives are being taken every single day … All these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government. So a life for a life.”
Brown, 29, is currently behind bars in the Essex County Jail in Newark, New Jersey on charges that he murdered 19-year-old Brendan Tevlin on July 25th by gunning him down at a red light. According to NJ Advance Media, after firing multiple shots into the vehicle, Brown moved Tevlin’s body into the back seat of the car, which he then drove to a nearby apartment building and abandoned it. The two did not know each other.
Authorities in Washington State have also charged Brown for the murder of 30-year-old Leroy Henderson, who died in April after being shot ten times in the b
Let's deal with the Muslims in the US; their self professed Jihadists, their Madrasas, their militia training camps, their sniper attacks, their Major Hussan, USA, traitors...First.
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I think you missed your midday dose of PTSD meds. Electroshock therapy for you first thing tomorrow morning at the VA hospital.
Looks like you missed a couple session(s).
So those items listed are inaccurate? There are dozens of such incidents. I remember wondering if I would be shot while getting gas during the Muslim DC sniper spree.
All you have proved is that whack jobs exist in all countries.
OBarry and his merry band of marauders seem fixated on the next step in the CFR's dream of eliminating all the ME dictators. It also seems he is avoiding public or congressional debate on the wisdom of persuing that course, and hopes to use the cover of going after SISI to knock off Assad at the same time. Heck; it may be his primary objective. The press and the people need to demand an answer to "why?". Haven't we learned what happens when we overthrow these admittedly brutal dictators? And anyone who says we can instill "democracy" in that region needs to be staked at low tide.
Reality is a free market of laws and order. Where limits naturally exist those that overstep them are forced to yield.
Mike Krieger knows less about the Constitution than he thinks he does.
My greatest disappointment so far regarding this latest govt clusterfck is watching Senator Paul triangulate the issue. I don't know if he's tactically bob and weaving so not to get himself disqualified or marginalized in 2016 or he's allowed himself to get punked out rather early in his political career. time will tell I suppose. It's disturbing.
Ibin Captain Nemo -
You need to do some serious reading and study on Islam before you post anything about it.
Russia is not innocent here
There is plenty of corruption on both sides of the lake
And there is plenty of disinfo here via RT and folks like toni from poland
Russia has been involved for many years with using Islam, since the 60's, but so has the US
Islam and Russia will eventualy take ths country down
Several here think that is nonsense
You are just as diluded as the libtards
"As Russian military pressure on Ukraine intensifies, as ISIL advances and strengthens, as hackers threaten U.S. banks like J.P. Morgan, we can see a pattern and a larger design. When we learn that a leading commander in ISIL was born in the Soviet Union and trained in Russia, we ought to wonder what is really going on? When we read that cyber-attacks on U.S. banks are thought to originate in Russia, we should stop believing in coincidences.
There is a bag of tricks, and there are tricksters at work. "
http://www.jrnyquist.com/moscow-s-bag-of-tricks.html
What a crap article. "The West" did not exist in 1939, it was the British Empire admired by Hitler and loathed by FDR. It was Poland that invited France to join it in a pre-emptive strike on Germany in 1935 when Poland had a bigger army than Germany; it was France that refused.
ISIS is full of Baathist Officers fighting the war Saddam would not let them fight. The Russians have lost more people to Islamic terror than the US ever has - it was the US that used Al-Qaeda to feed fighters into Chechnya backed with Saudi money.
These weird newsletters must emanate from The State Department or CIA since everything n the world has "the Reds' behind it fooling the ever-so innocent American Intelligence operation........clearly it is time to give them even more power and plant RFID chips in US babies "for security you understand" so they can't be recruited by "enemies of The State"
"ISIS is full of Baathist Officers fighting the war Saddam would not let them fight."
Are you referring to an all out war of genocide upon the Shiites within Iraq?
Then there is this.....
Iran 'sending troops' to fight Islamic State in Iraq13 September 2014 Last updated at 00:59 BST
Shia militias in Iraq, trained and funded by Iran, are leading the ground offensive against Islamic State (IS) alongside Kurdish fighters.
However, the BBC has learnt that Iran already appears to be sending troops and weapons to fight the Sunni extremists in the country.
American airstrikes have weakened the forces of Islamic State and US Secretary of State John Kerry is confident of building a coalition against it.
The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse reports from Iraq.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29186506
Nobel Peace Prize to War Criminal in 6 years !!
Thanks, Mike, for addressing these crucial issues.
Mbaaaaaa-aaaa. Baaaaaaaah.
Chief sheep.
Ah GW, another steam vent who fails miserably to see that the installation of the domestic enemy Obama, a British subject, effectively killed the Republic. You failed to educate the public, thus you support Obama.
What, he failed to jump onto your wildass birther conspiracy theory, probably because the evidence didn't support it and there were more important things to inform people about?
Loser.
An awakened sheep...is still a sheep.
Stop blaming Obama. Seriously. It's insulting to my intelligence and misleading the dumb.
Here is what happened. The mic who is the bank syndicate wanted war with Syria. The false flag last year was for that purpose. Obama and Kerry got cockblocked by Putin and shitty optics on the attack. So they called for a peace and that made the mic most unhappy.
So they built Isis to run amok and create a horror show while killing lots of obamas kinfolk. The message is clear. Mic does what mic wants. No fucking president is going to say no to them.
If Obama flinched here I guarantee we would see another false flag in his back yard; your back yard. They might even do him in for effect. See grassy knoll.
But as long as you supposed all knowers keep pointing fingers at the puppets like that is anything close to the way shit works, we are doomed to the same old song and dance.
Deception bitchez. You are the sheep you're looking for.
I can't wait for the film to come out, who do you think will play Obama?
You have no intelligence. Any thought that "Obama doesn't matter" proves it. See above.
Obama, like Bush, is the highly paid front man sitting at the control panel with buttons marked LAUNCH, INVADE, DRONE, KILL, DESTROY, and DECEIVE, and he enjoys his role of the guy that pushes the buttons. Yes, blame Obama: he wanted to be "king for a day". He is a pro-war interventionist and surrounds himself with like-minded advisers -- he is not going against his conscience.
There is no need to pretend that Obama, a member of the MIC, is a victim. Obama along with the MIC and its supporters are the victimizers.
I love the smell of WROL in the morning.
The AIPAC employees in Congress don't give a flying fuck about the Constitution.
To them it is dead and buried, a memory at best. The only arguement that is being presented by Congress is "Is Obamao doing enough?" and "Why no boots on the ground?".
We are totally and competely fucked.
If you do a little research, you'll find that everywhere nobody gives a fuck about Constitutions.
People in Power do whatever they want and find the way to get away with it.
There's no rule of law anywhere. Institutions don't work or better, they work as TPTB's appendix.
That's why anarchy spreads and we go medieval further and further.
If Obongo wants to stop ISIl what he has to do is just tell the CIA to stop financing and training them instead of sending joung men to die for nothing !
Many claim that "the President doesn't matter" or "is a puppet", and that may be true in many cases, but Obama is different. He represents the end game for the NWO. The installation of the domestic enemy Obama means the final dissolution of the Republic of the United States. They figured out how to muscle in an ineligible foreigner into the highest office with the help of a treasonous Congress (including Ron Paul-- what "constitutional scholar" allows a British born Usurper into the WH?)), and a useful idiot media using voter fraud (i.e the hiring of a foreign company to electronically "count" votes in the general election.)
Some idiots think that an ineligible president does not matter, since he is a "puppet" anyway, but the big elephant sitting on their chest is that when the executor of the laws is an illegal entity then there is no law, and the law will be only what the evil man in power say it is. Isn't that what is happening right before your eyes?
Nartural born Citizens are born in the US of 2 US Citizen parents (or to an unmarried US Citizen mother), i.e where no foreign allegiances can exist according to US law. It is a security measure, designed specifically to avert foreign influence, which the framers saw as a threat to the Republic. It is impossible to think that one born of a foreign citizenship is eligible. Obama is the perfect example of why they are not, as he displays no allegiance or attachment to country.
Obama is not an eligible natural born citizen because he was born BRITISH, of a British subject father, by the operation of the British Nationalization Act 1948, and in fact may be BRITISH to this very day. He even told you so (See "Dreams From My FATHER"). He is laughing at you, they are all laughing at you, because you are too ignorant of your own Constitution to see that his putative Presidency means the final death of the "United States". He and his handlers stole the keys to the ship of state and are now careening around the world, destroying all they can, because that's the objective--- cause the problem in order to solve it.
He supposedly posted a "birth certificate" on line "for all to see". It is a picture on the internet that means nothing, and is proof of nothing in any court of law. Can you go to the post office and present a laptop with a pic of your birth certificate and get a passport? Can you do the same to a potential employer and get a job? It is laughable on its face, yet the useful idiot media, treasonous Congress, and the blind have come up with a Perjoritive, "Birther", to smear anyone who questions as a crazy loon, because that is the way Alinsky rolls--- it is right out of the playbook.
They are laughing at the thought that "Obama doesn't matter", as he oversees the Cloward Piven destruction of the United States, attacking evey fabric of American society, as he, a foreign virus, runs rough shod throgh the body politic.
"Democracy" is a lie (there is no "right to vote"). "Multiculturalism" is a lie. The only thing that holds the Republic together is the Constitution and the rule of law, and now it is gone.
You were to ignorant of the US Constitution, the greatest instrument of government ever written, and the only one written BEFORE an entity of government of a nation even existed, and ratified as acceptance of it. "A Republic, if you can keep it" were the words of Ben Franklin. We did not keep it, and the final blow was the installation of a British born non natural born Citizen foreigner into the Oval Office.
We could take it back, but alas the citizenry of the former Republic are too ignorant to know that the President may be "REMOVED" (See the 25th Amendment) due to "INABILITY", i.e a "Constitutional disability" (See the 12th Amendment and 3 US Code 19).
He and his handlers and his subjugates killed us, like pneumonia that sweeps in and delivers the death blow. We didn't even fight. They are laughing in the Oval Office, the halls of Congress, in the CFR, in the Pentagon, about how easy it was to subjegate and disinherit the citizens of the United States and their progeny, and take the Republic away from them.
I upvoted you but there's something we need to keep in mind. The Constitution of the United States is a corporate charter. The Constitution for the United States of America that "protects" people's rights no longer exists. What I want to dispel is this myth that there is a document, person, or group out there that can or will "save" us. There isn't. Every fucking one of these world leaders is in on it; it being total control. Who knows what the real endgame beyond that is. I'm sorry to be cynical but the stranglehold that is upon us is not going away anytime soon.
Yup, glad you get it!
Unfortunately, this is correct, and boy oh boy, we are hosed.
As for the endgame, it's the NWO, world government with those banksters pulling all the strings of the puppet politicians. It never was about anything else.
We really don't know that. Yes that's the propaganda being spewed but is it really the endgame? It may yet be another means to an end. Its all about keeping us in a low vibrational state of fear because when your body is kept in that state, your critical thinking skills have a real hard time emerging. How bout this whopper....what if nuclear weapons were not real? They have been the single most fear inducing mechanism maybe ever seen. What if it was and still is all just a fear campaign JUST LIKE terrorism. All of these bogeymen our military so dutifully chase are nothing more than constructs of the world leaders. There's no real terrorism. ALL OF IT IS FEAR BASED MIND CONTROL. Indeed something to think about, no?
Edit: To those simple-minded folk who doubt me based on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, look at the damage again, and again. For those that take the time to do hard research, incredible truth they do find. Not always pretty, but nonetheless, the truth.
Jeff Rabin: This guy is protected from up on high by the Prince of Darkness.
-The Usual Suspects
Get a clue. Obama is legally a US citizen, born in Hawaii of a mother who was a US citizen. All the rest is conspiracy theory with nothing behind it.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Obama_citizenship_denial#Court_hearings
In any case, his citizenship has nothing to do with his crimes in furthering the Imperial Presidency. And why would the "NWO" need to pick somebody who wasn't a citizen to further their agenda anyways? As if there aren't plenty of willing citizens to do the job!
The whole birther thing is a load of crap, imo, a distraction from the real issues with Obama, and with any future president who carries the Imperialist President torch. It reminds me of the wedge issues our duopoly uses to distract us from the creeping fascism (gay marriage, abortion, immigration).
The requirement is NATURAL BORN CITIZEN, not "US Citizen". You need to get the clue.
"The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens." Minor v. Happersett, 88 US 162, 167 (1874).
But then you are merely a .gov troll
whatev. He IS a natural born citizen, since he was born in HAWAII, which was a STATE at the time. Or are you going to go off the deep end and start talking about pixels now?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certifica...
From a 2011 Congressional Research Service Report, here is some clarification on the term "natural born" citizen:
"The weight of legal and historical authority indicates that the term "natural born" citizen would mean a person who is entitled to U.S. citizenship "by birth" or "at birth," either by being born "in" the United States and under its jurisdiction, even those born to alien parents; by being born abroad to U.S. citizen-parents; or by being born in other situations meeting legal requirements for U.S. citizenship "at birth." Such term, however, would not include a person who was not a U.S. citizen by birth or at birth, and who was thus born an "alien" required to go through the legal process of "naturalization" to become a U.S.citizen."
I'd go to the "talk" tab on the Wikipedia entry here, and take it up there. Most people are pretty satisfied with the main text, which exposes theories like yours for what they are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theorie...
Congressional research service is not LAW. Congress has used it for cover for the treason they committed in allowing the Usurper Obama into the WH.
If the very well known purpose of the natural born Citizenship requirement is security against foreign influence then it is impossible that anyone born with foreign citizenship is eligible.
WIKI--- now that's a joke.
ALL of Supreme Court dicta and holdings say that natural born Citizens are born in the US of US Citizen parentage.
"The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens." Minor v. Happersett, 88 US 162, 167 (1874).
Why did you leave out the rest of the paragraph from that opinion? Because it didn't help your case? Selective editing is dishonest, imo. A tool of propandists.
Since the case did not seek to settle anything about the context of "natural born citizen", as stated below, it does not provide precedent for interpreting the Constitution's intent.
"The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case it is not necessary to solve these doubts. It is sufficient for everything we have now to consider that all children born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction are themselves citizens. The words "all children" are certainly as comprehensive, when used in this connection, as "all persons," and if females are included in the last they must be in the first. That they are included in the last is not denied. In fact the whole argument of the plaintiffs proceeds upon that idea."
Oh, and regarding Wikipedia, it helps to sort through the batshit crazy stuff that people like you sling, since it is based on reliable sources. Sorry if I don't hold YOUR opinion, some wack job on the internet, above legal scholars. They actually have standards for what qualifies as a reliable source, and that matters to some people. But ad hominem atacks like yours (attacking Wikipedia and the Congressional Research instead of attacking the information presented by them) are typical of those who have no support for their allegations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#What_counts_as_a_re...
For your nit picking pleasure:
http://www.michiganlawreview.org/articles/originalism-and-the-natural-bo...
Cui bono? http://shutupnsing.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/masters-of-the-universe-and-the-qatar-connection/
Thanks for the link shtupsng.
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICKSEPT. 13, 2014
Muslim Brotherhood Leader Says Qatar Asked Some Members to Leave
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/world/middleeast/bowing-to-pressure-qatar-asks-some-muslim-brotherhood-leaders-to-leave.html?src=twr&_r=0
OT : today a sniper shot two state police at a state police HQ, in NJ..large areas of PA and NJ have road blocks..this is a tactic that can work against militarized police, do we call this bunker hill, who knows??
I think the REAL question is, on what day will the impeachment begin, the day the new Republicant's Senators take their oath of office or the day after? No what the impeachment is for, I will call if a just action. The President is a WAR CRIMINAL!
Seeing the Republicans (like McCain) are more than happy to use military force whenever possible, why would they want to spoil things for when their guy gets a chance to run wild?
Have you heard any Republicans give specifics on exactly what they would impeach Obama for?
"Mr. Bush gained explicit congressional consent for his invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq."
That's a far cry from gaining a Constitutional Declaration of War...isn't it?
But here and in the present day "What difference does it make [now]?" Really?
All I see is a whole lot of partisan loyalists trying to score some meaningless points in a game that We the People lost long ago...
Agree with that. What difference would it make if Congress were involved. They will rubber stamp whatever obama asks them to rubber stamp. Obama knows he has implicit congressional consent for moar woar.
Congress allowed Bush against
“nations and organizations that planned, authorized, committed or aided the 9/11 attacks.”
But the invasion of Iraq was knowingly and deceitfully based on a pack of lies.
It was a war crime from the start, and additional war crimes and treaty violations were committed in its execution.
Obama continued committing those violations, and added some more including the refusal to investigate and prosecute prior crimes.
Attacking another nation with bombs, drones, special forces, mercenaries and/or regular troops is an act of war
- no matter how "different this time" it is claimed to be from previous wars.
You have a president who clearly is off his rocker and no one has the guts to fire him for incompetance and breaking his oath.
It wouldn't be so bad if it only affected Americans, but he is dragging other countries into it.
Who gives a damn about the "legal" aspect, what happened to the moral aspect? Are the words "One Nation under God" mean nothing or is the God of the United States the God of War?
If Ares were living among humanity incognito, my guess is he'd be heading to live among the Russians. The god of war wouldn't sanction the pussyficated warmongering route the u.s. and israel undertakes; all this inciting-conflict-through-deception nonsense. A straight up honest bloody fight is the side he would likely choose. He might as well opt for moral high ground this time around, given his history.
Whoever that is has a great sense of humor. My favorite part is that a retired general will be overseeing the conflict, anti terrorist action, war, whatever the hell you call it today. I can imagine all that active military brass sitting around thinking "What the fuck am i?" This does show the huge disconnect and hatred, not disdain, Obama has for our military. Sad and dangerous I think. Also, this is actually Obama starting his own personal army with the political agenda he sets. Hell of a thing that.
Global Rsearch, September 12, 2014:
Economic and Financial Warfare: The Sanctions Regime Directed against Russia is Part of a US-NATO Military Agenda
“We are implementing these new measures in light of Russia’s actions to further destabilise Ukraine over the last month, including through the presence of heavily armed Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, … If Russia fully implements its commitments, these sanctions can be rolled back. If, instead, Russia continues its aggressive actions and violations of international law, the costs will continue to rise.” ( President Barack Obama, September 11, 2001)
Obama’s assertion that “Russian combat forces with Russian weapons and Russian tanks” have been deployed in Eastern Ukraine is an outright lie. It’s not only a Lie, it is Lie which could potentially precipitate humanity into a Third World War.
Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) “have registered no troops, ammunition or weapons crossing the Russian-Ukrainian border over the past two weeks” (Itar-Tass)
The sanctions regime directed against Russia is part of a broader process of economic and financial warfare in support of a clearly defined military agenda. While the West accuses Russia of “aggression”, the NATO summit in Wales has outlined a military road-map which threatens Russia’s security. -- Michel Chossudovsky, September 12, 2014
http://www.globalresearch.ca/economic-and-financial-warfare-the-sanctions-regime-directed-against-russia-is-part-of-a-us-nato-m
We are broken. We are leaderless. We have become the laughingstock of the world. We are a well armed and rudderless ship looking for a shoal to crash on. Look around. Empty commercial,,, residential and industrial properties all over the country. Cost of living for food and energy going higher all the time. I am a 1099 rep for three different companies in two distinctly different industries. No benefits of any kind since 2008 when I lost a job of 22 years I fully planned on retiring from. My past few years I have made less than I paid in income taxes the previous 20 years. I love it. i am no longer feeding the beast. You would be amazed at how little you can live on if forced to.
I made last year what I made working as an executive chef in 1984,,, you catch that reference to the year? We haven't seen anything yet boys and girls. Will we reach lock and load? Not sure on that. Will we go downhill from here? I would bet the farm on it.
Today I am going to shoot handguns with my daughter, wife and son in law. My two year old grandson will be there too. We will grill steaks. The sun is shining. I am healthy. I cannot cry the sky is falling every day. This afternoon I will fish for smallmouth bass in the river. As the water cools the best two months of the year are ahead of me. I cannot fill my head with 24/7 bombardment of world news. I do wonder though what kind of American my grandson will be in when he is my age? Will American exist? What? You laugh? I wouldn't,, happy Saturday to all,,,,,
You sound a lot like me. Atlas has shrugged me off good and proper.
The vacuum that the Obama administration creates is a tyrant’s dream. The leaders behind the curtain are spending America’s heritage and its future for their power and luxury. The warmongers (neo-cons) have admired the decisive leadership of Netanyahu and our rulers are obviously pleased to have Bibi call Obama every day for his marching orders.
The Congress, with its many shouts of adoration and standing ovations for Bibi, has completely abandoned its responsibilities under the U.S. Constitution for representative government; that’s the illusion of a leaderless society.
It is not hyperbole to suggest that the key leadership beginning to dominate Congress is coming from the Zionists and this latest AIPAC-proposed legislation proves it: if it passes, it will show that the US Congress belongs to Israel. The AIPAC legislation would give Congress the power to punish those who support the boycott of Israeli businesses for Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories as long as it continues.
Pro-Israel Activists Aim To Block Boycott Movement With Legislation
AIPAC seeks to slow BDS. posted on Sept. 9, 2014, at 2:17 p.m.
The most powerful pro-Israel lobbying organization, AIPAC, is working on drafting legislation that would aim to counter the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, two sources familiar with the situation told BuzzFeed News.
The legislation, which has not yet been introduced and has been in the process of being drafted for months, would aim to prevent U.S. companies from participating in the campaign without infringing on Americans’ First Amendment rights to political speech. It would also try to make the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership being negotiated between the U.S. and E.U. conditional on whether the E.U. takes action to stop BDS.
“The biggest provisions would be authorizing states and local governments to divest from companies deemed to be participating in BDS; denial of federal contracts to such companies; and threatening the conditioning of the US-EU free trade pact on the EU taking action to stop BDS activities within its jurisdictions,” said a Republican foreign policy adviser familiar with the legislation. The bill, the adviser said, originated with a former top aide to Illinois Senator Mark Kirk and has now been “expanded” by AIPAC, which is working with House and Senate offices on the draft.
“This legislation could really change the global dynamic with respect to BDS — in effect, it’s a boycott of those who boycott,” the adviser said. “It applies the successes we learned from Iran sanctions and applies them to those who seek Israel’s political destruction.” …
Reps. Peter Roskam and Dan Lipinski introduced an anti-BDS bill in February that would bar U.S. universities that receive federal funding from joining boycotts of academic institutions — a measure that would be difficult to square with the First Amendment. The bill never went anywhere. …
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/pro-israel-activists-aim-to-block-boycott-movement-with-legi#vbwq
I am preparring mentally for the possibility of joining you in your situation someday. Nice to hear that you can survive and take pleasure in "not feeding the beast". Keep on truckin Deerhunter.
Cliff Notes version of US foreign policy from Vietnam to ISIS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0AxrOUJ62E
I don't know the state by state politics (getting votes in upcoming elections is more accurate) of Obama's ISIS actions - but I have no doubt his analysis (or the analysis of his political whore) tells them it will help win a few close elections and increase the chances of the DEMS keeping the senate.
IMHO everything Obama does (except play golf & play with himself) is focused on this one thing.
Imagine the torturous hell the next two year would be for Obama if he loses the senate.
Just the investigations about Benghazi & IRS targeting of Tea party conservatives would be a circus and I am sure there are 10 more investigations that the GOP could think up.
His only hope then would be to play the race card every day - and after a few months that would start to get pretty thin.
But then be careful what you ask for - if the GOP controls the house and senate they may need to actually do something definitive.
Are you kidding me??? The GOP will need to do something definitive if they win? Let me tell you something, regardless of which party wins, something definitive is always done. Politicians owe people and I am not talking us people or you people. They are all psychopaths and love the power. Rest assured definitive action will be taken.
The U.S. Constitution is a barbarous relic...
off topic: smoothed new case rate (does not include DRC outbreak data):
12 Sep 14 - 92/day
08 Sep 14 - 86/day
04 Sep 14 - 75/day
28 Aug 14 - 69/day
22 Aug 14 - 59/day
20 Aug 14 - 54/day
19 Aug 14 - 46/day
15 Aug 14 - 54/day
13 Aug 14 - 40/day
11 Aug 14 - 37/day
08 Aug 14 - 54/day
06 Aug 14 - 55/day
04 Aug 14 - 57/day
02 Aug 14 - 43/day
29 Jul 14 - 38/day
27 Jul 14 - 23/day
23 Jul 14 - 12/day
17 Jul 14 - 10/day
Case Fatality Risk Estimate: 51%
Active Case Growth Rate: 5.1% per day
Health worker cases/deaths: 301/144
(12 Sep release contains data through 7 Sep)
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/133073/1/roadmapsitrep3_eng.pdf
Discrepancy noted in Liberian data: confirmed deaths dropped by 10 and suspected deaths dropped by 85.
Contrast and comparison: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/09/09/national_insecurity_obama_foreign_policy?1
I knew there was trouble coming when I saw the locals protesting in Cambridge, MA sporting big posters of Obama with an Adolf stache circa 2008 ("bros before hos" and "obamagasm" days). Hats off to those of you Harvard and MIT students, you nailed it.
This situation is EXACTLY what Congress wants. They can run on their own anti- or pro- rhetoric without the bother of casting a ballot - which can then be used by their opponent in the upcoming election. You see it now on TV ads - every incumbent voted against helping widows and orphans, or voted for huge tax increases, or spent too much money on office decorations or trips. No one in Congress wants an up or down vote just in case things flip flop and turn public opinion against their vote.
+1 Well said
Obama wouldn't do anythin illegal. .(sarc)
I dont think this story is really necessary to be honest.
One more thing on Congress - a no vote also has very negative effects on your campaign war chest as defense contractors pump that money to your opponent. Yet a YES vote might turn off a majority of voters who are war weary. Hence - failure to even have a vote!
That gale wind blowing out of DC during the first Syrian "crisis" was the sigh of relief breathed by Congress when they found out that they did not have to actually vote for Obama's proposed bombing.
BERLIN — PRESIDENT OBAMA’s declaration of war against the terrorist group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria marks a decisive break in the American constitutional tradition. Nothing attempted by his predecessor, George W. Bush, remotely compares in imperial hubris.
Typical PROGESSIVE action is always illegal.
Progressive=Criminal=should be plain to see
Marxprogs are the face of death for millions. History proves this.
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/
Save the world, arrest all progressive criminals infesting the FEDGOV now!
Grimaldus
Right, its those EEEEEEEEEVIL Progressives. If only McCain had been chosen, we would finally have had peace and the bogus War on Terror would be finished. Huh?
http://newday.blogs.cnn.com/2014/09/11/sen-mccain-wants-to-see-president...
yeehaw! (can't get the image of McCain riding that bomb in Dr. Strangelove out of my head)
p.s. there is no progressive voice in our legislature:
http://my.firedoglake.com/nsolomon/2013/01/08/the-progressive-caucus-ena...
When push comes to shove, they line up with their party, just like the tea party lines up with the Republican agenda. The duopoly maintains tight control.
And yet most people don't care and/or don't know about what is going on.
The cowards on the House are complicit in every Obongo criminal act... they could stop this lunatic... but refuse.
Just an historical note. The Bush invasion, conquest and occupation of Iraq was a world class war crime. A crime in which most Americans and all the government supported in most every way.
Need I point out the fact that the new ISIS war is small in comparison. And is a direct result of the Bush invasion of Iraq. And Now is made worse by Necon Washington's puppet Obama creating the Syrian war by hiring Al-Qaeda and Jihadists to fight it.
I will not sit silent while people claim ISIS war is worse than the Bush wars. I seriously am sick and tired of people trying to gain points for team Republican by making such claims. Bush sat in the White House on 9/11 with memo on his desk for months saying just such a thing was going to happen. Ms Rice lied too, as she had intelligence on her desk for month saying airliners would be used as flying bombs.
The Washington DC sickness is mutal and total. Republicans, when they win the White House in a few years will take the Obama wars, and double down on them in the extreme. I dare anyone to come back here in a few years to defend what they are planning to do. Remember Bush, he started his presidency with the new Neocon policy to confront China openly with military force. Thus the spy plane incident.
The purpose of this post is to cool down those who think they have Obama in a place they can gain points for team republican. Please, admit your party is fucked up and a zionest tool, just like Obama. Change in a few years? Peace, no more money printing? Wars abroad wound down. Free markets? The Fed under control. Banks brought to book for manipulation and fraud. NO, this will not happen. Obama carried on 90% of Bush policies, The next Republican will carry on 90% of Obama most important policies.
Hint. the future is : "MORE OF THE SAME, ON STEROIDS".
When the entire CONgress has as its primary concern to get re-elected, anything goes....Make no mistake about it, it's a pathetic circus....
"Invade Iraq!" - FINE, Ah how are we doing on campaign contributions?...
"Give the NSA sweeping powers that violate Constitutional rights!" - FINE, Ah how are we doing on campaign contributions?...
"We need to jack up the deficit!" - FINE, Ah how are we doing on campaign contributions?...
ETC., ETC., ETC............
"In taking this step, Mr. Obama is not only betraying the electoral majorities who twice voted him into office on his promise to end Bush-era abuses of executive authority."
Obama said he was going to fundamentally change America.
isis running faster than ebola
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-13/islamic-state-bombs-iraq-oil-re...
If It's illegal then the repubicans should impeach Obama. Of course it's not so saying it is just makes them look impotent. Same reason the "law suit" just fell off the grid. Maybe another vote in the House to drop ACA will make them look better... oh, wait. The Leader, Cantor is gone. Voted out for being a moron.
It is illegal but the US Congress is guilty too....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_against_peace
In 1950, the Nuremberg Tribunal defined Crimes against Peace (in Principle VI.a, submitted to the United Nations General Assembly) as
For those of you who never served in the military, and that's a considerable amount of you, here is a fact to give you some thought about this decleration of war against Iraq garbage. When i graduated from basic and EIT i received a national defense ribbon. I asked my commander why i was receiving this and he said, "we are still technically at war with Iraq because they never signed a peace treaty." Turns out he was right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_687
From this and the 16 different resolution against Iraq for not allowing inspectors in to inspect theiri chemical/nuclear weapons stockpile, all during the 90's, the United States had UN authorization to continue war activities against Iraq at any time due to the numerous INTERNATIONAL violations.
The first gulf war had less to do with saving Kuwait than most know. Iraq was a puppet of Russia at the time and the connections between them is far deeper than most understand. Who do you think gave Iraq SCUD missles to launch into Israel?
9-11 has many foreign players including some americans in our government. What would any of you have said if President Bush came out on that day and told you the numerous connections to these various states and that we had to act? What do you think that would mean? We would have to go to war with one or more major super powers which would mean nuclear war.
Too many here are ready and willing to blame the USA, and not so willing to see the many others who wish to destroy this great country and freedom for any, for the problems in the world.
Its not the people of the USA as it is not the people of the other countries. Its those who believe in controlling you at all costs, and have at its disposal various subversive groups who infiltrate and tear down countries and the institutions of good people who wish to instill positive values into their families and cultures.
These evil fucks want you to have one faith and that is them....cuz you're too fucking stooopid!
Now go back to sleep sheep.
Only sheep I see here is you. Could be PTSD from your military experience has addled your brain. This link might help you with that:
http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/04/18/mindfulness-therapy-can-aid-vets...
BTW, Iraq was technically a "military engagement", not a war. No war was ever declared.
Wikipedia (who you avoid in order to preserve your confirmation bias) covers both sides of the legality issue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_of_the_2003_invasion_of_Iraq
Paranoia such as yours is the reason we are stuck with a rogue agency like the NSA.
http://nypost.com/2014/02/01/welcome-to-the-united-states-of-paranoia/